Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag was detected near Stella in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 185 km (115 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2018310000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018310000. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/11/18 / 2018-11-06 00:51:10 / November 6, 2018 @ 12:51 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.8871 West, latitude 18.0596 North, depth = 185 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:51:10 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana, Cabo Rojo, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 73 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.8871° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0596° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	185 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-06 00:51:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-06 03:12:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	155	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pr	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6714	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	219	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2018310000	Id of event.
Event Code	2018310000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018310000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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